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thepredestrian

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thepredestrian··on Show HN: Zenfetch – Turn your saved browsing content into an AI second brain
This looks great! Loving the product. Does this store information from videos that I've watched as well?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?
What kind of site do you run that generates $1.5k/month in ad revenue? High traffic niche blog?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Tricks to Avoid Eye Problems?
What does diet soda have anything to do with eyes?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Tricks to Avoid Eye Problems?
What has diet soda got to do with eyes?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: *How* do you use/organise your (personal) server?
I only run 2 docker containers in a server, so I don't need anything complex.

I couldn't really fine a simple alerting tool, so I wrote a script that periodically checks if my docker containers are alive or not, and ping me on Telegram if one of them dies.

thepredestrian··on Ask HN: What software service to monitor the health of my docker containers?
Wanted to see if there are less hacky ways to do it.
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: What exciting new projects do you want to do this year?
Do you work in the industry? How did you manage to reach out and get your first interested users / customers?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?
Do you happen to hire co-ops for these type of roles? I have recently had interest in consulting
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Where are the good jobs in Canada?
There is TripAdvisor and SurveyMonkey
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
What that is would be an Oracle: http://www.oraclize.it/
thepredestrian··on Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
It is still on the blockchain. You just won't be able to see it -- or you can always throw up another page to display the data
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?
What industry do you work in? I'm surprised there isn't a lightweight accounting software for freelancers / consultants
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: How long did it take you to go from side project idea to launch?
Where do you get your sources from?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
I get an error message when sending to the email; is there an alternative contact?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
Feedback to those applying: We scheduled a phone interview but got ghosted (no emails or replies as to what happened)
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
I've always wondered - what kind of tech stack is required to run a service like this? Would you classify it as a webapp?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
How did you market your product? Im always very curious about how startups approach companies when they are developing a prototype
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?
That's what I do as well. Except instead of React, I use Redux off the DOM. It prototypes fast and I don't run into any configuration issues
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
Maybe I'm a little too inexperienced to understand how this works - how does your app access Mailchimp without their permission? Are you using their API? Sorry if it's a silly question
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
Interesting. What exactly do you mean 'desktop app that integrates with a service'? Any examples?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
How does one know what to build? And even then, how do you approach businesses to sell your product to?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: What platform do you use for blogging?
I recognise your handle from the favesound react/redux app!
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
Oh wow, that'd be super amazing, and I look forward to that.

I wholeheartedly agree that advertising and acquiring users are the most important pieces, and also one of the hardest. Finding a niche and the market to go after (who do I approach? what do I say? what sort of problems can I solve that hasnt already been done? etc) has been a stumbling block, not to mention the fact that I'm far from technically fluent to spin up a basic prototype to demo.

As such I kinda put that aspiration on hold and decided to hone my craft in CS / programming in general, so that at least I have a solid, technical base to built off on.

Anyhow, I really appreciate your response and am excited to hearing back from you.

thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
Unrelated point, but I would do anything (even put school on hold) just to be able to work with a mentor like you. Being a solo founder for niche Saas products is exactly what I aspire to be, and learning from someone who's been there and done that would be a terrific experience
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: How can I monetize GitHub Issues?
I work in a blockchain company and I'm building a tool that allows users to vote on pull requests to be merged to github, all done on the blockchain.

Naturally reading this has spun some ideas in my mind - it would be cool to build a system where people are incentivized to respond to issues, and having it on the blockchain removes a lot of the trust issues that comes along with payouts and rewards.

Any thoughts on this?

thepredestrian··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?
I recently created a website similar to this recently at a hackathon. I considered setting up a payment system but decided not to as I didn't think people would actually pay for something like this... curious to know - over what period of time did you make the $300?
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: $1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?
Where / how did you reach out to these sponsors? I run a website in the travel industry and would like to add some advertising on it as well
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Is there an email I can reach you at? I can't message you on LinkedIn as I need to go premium
thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Resume busters like Assembler?
I did a variation of Lisp (called Racket) in for my first CS course in college.

Since you recommend getting good at it (or at least being competent enough to demonstrate that in interviews), any tips on how once with a very basic foundation of functional programming can proceed?

thepredestrian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
That's a neat website. What technologies / frameworks were used to create the front-end?
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